IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 Kicks Off in Anaheim, California

Highlights of the day - 3 December 2012

• Welcome from Conference Chairs

• Program Spotlight


• SARACEN Contest – Win a tablet
Open to all attendees. Simply use your camera or mobile phone to produce and upload a video to the SARACEN platform on “What is IEEE GLOBECOM.”  Upload content and complete a questionnaire on by Wednesday, 5 December 2012 to enter with a chance of winning. The goal is to tell everyone what IEEE GLOBECOM is all about.  The winner of the contest will be awarded with a tablet at the Lightning Talks session in North Ballroom A on Thursday, 6 December 2012, which is the last session of the Industry Forums. Additional information can be found on the SARACEN website.

• IEEE Cloud Computing Congress at IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 -- 
The IEEE Cloud Computing Congress being held in North America is part of an overall presence of the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative at IEEE GLOBECOM 2012. The congress consists of a tutorial, executive forum, several Industry Forum and Exhibition (IF&E) sessions and a technical workshop. See the final program for more information. 



The IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative (CCI), launched in April 2011 and significantly funded in 2012, intends to help accelerate the development and use of cloud computing technologies and help advance the understanding and use of the cloud computing paradigm by coordinating IEEE cloud computing conferences, publications, standards, educational, and regional activities. The IEEE Cloud Computing Web Portal provides members of the technical community as well as the general public a convenient, centralized gateway to news and information about cloud computing and the many activities organized and led by the IEEE CCI.


• Events of the Day

• Program Updates

• Dinning & Entertainment

• Conference Best Papers: include papers from Symposia on 

• Selected Areas of Communications

• Communication Theory 

• Cognitive Radio and Networks

Check out the Monday, 3 December 2012 edition of the IEEE GLOBECOM Daily, conference newsletter.

(From the event floor)